19th International Logistics and Supply Chain Congress (LMSCM2021) will be held at Gaziantep University with the collaboration of the Logistics Association (LODER), Hasan Kalyoncu University, and Poznan University of Economics and Business on October 21-22, 2021. The congress provides an excellent opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to discuss recent and future trends in logistics and supply chain management.
LMSCM2021 encourages multidisciplinary networks and platforms for academics and professionals to identify the challenges and discuss solutions for logistics and supply chain management and welcomes scientific and practical contributions from different disciplines and fields. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished research that has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. The submitted papers will undergo a double-blinded review process.
The main theme of the congress is “Humanitarian Logistics and Supply Chain Management”. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
Humanitarian logistics
Emergency logistics
Disaster relief operations
Supply chain management in disaster relief
Development aid logistics and supply chain management
Assessing and managing supply chain vulnerability
Managing supply chain disruptions
Measuring performance in humanitarian supply chains
Decision-making in humanitarian supply chains
Knowledge management and transfer in humanitarian supply chains
Information and communication technology for humanitarian logistics
Supply chain cooperation, integration, and collaboration in the humanitarian setting
Relationship management in humanitarian supply chains
Public-private partnerships in humanitarian logistics
Inter-organizational coordination across humanitarian supply chains
Civil-military cooperation in disaster relief
Humanitarian health care supply chains
Principles and theory of relief supply chain management
The role of donors and volunteers in humanitarian logistics
Not-for-profit supply chains
Quantitative methods and simulation in disaster relief logistics
Warehousing and inventory management for disaster relief
Emergency procurement
Early detection and assessment of requirements for disaster relief chains
Big data for supply chain management in a crisis situation
Autonomous Vehicles in Logistics
Big data analytics in logistics
E-commerce and omnichannel logistics
Logistics 4.0
Sustainability in logistics and supply chains
Green logistics and supply chain management
Transportation and warehouse management
Social responsibility in logistics and supply chains
Best practices in logistics and supply chains
Innovation and technology management
Risk management
Retail logistics and supply chains
Service supply chains
Sourcing and outsourcing
Special topics in logistics and supply chains
Innovative and smart technologies in logistics
Smart and sustainable city logistics
Emergencies and crisis logistics
Humanitarian logistics
Health care logistics
Transportation law
All accepted and presented submissions will be published in the book of abstracts and full papers (optional) will be published in the conference proceedings and selected papers will be forwarded to LMSCM2021 special issues of selected journals (not certain).
http://lmscm2021.gantep.edu.tr/